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4 Health and Safety Risks and Benefits
Pages 47-52

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... As a consequence, at the end of the twentieth century yearly coal mine fatalities had dropped to one-sixtieth and metal/nonmetal mine fatalities to one-twentieth of the rates at the beginning of the century; at the same time, production today dwarfs production then. 47 According to the National Safety Council statistics of selected industries, safety in the mining industry is near the top one-third of industries reported (National Safety Council, 1999~.
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... SOURCE: Raja Ramani and Mark Radomsky.
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... SOURCE: Raja Ramani and Mark Radomsky.
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... Automated equipment is also subject to unexpected or unplanned movements. Unique challenges presented by the mining environment to the designer and operator of automated equipment include the lack of precise knowledge of operating conditions, mostly because of variations in geology; a demanding operating environment exacerbated by extremely dusty, noisy, and vibrational conditions; specialized equipment design to meet the stringent
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... Training miners in safe operating procedures in a noisy environment and the correct use of personal noise protection devices will also be necessary. COMMUNICATIONS Research linking computer-oriented monitoring of conditions in mines with a safety information system and a rapid communication system for transmitting that information in real time to miners could have tremendous payoffs for the entire industry.
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... and the design of equipment and training programs to eliminate them technology for assessing health and safety conditions in mine atmospheres; monitoring equipment that can distinguish the sources of airborne pollutants (blasting, diesels, oxidation, cutting) ; an instrument that can reliably measure the amount of diesel particulate matter; instruments that can accurately measure real-time personal exposures, particularly exposures to airborne respirable coal-mine dust determination of the health effects of mixed mode exposures in mine environments new materials and technologies to reduce noise in mining equipment and systems linking of computer-oriented monitoring of conditions in mines with a safety information system and a rapid communication system to provide specific information in real-time to each miner virtual-reality training modules for miners and mining-equipment operators .
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  • coal mine
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  • monitoring equipment
  • alert equipment
  • safety council
  • automated equipment
  • black lung

  • power sources
  • airborne pollutants
  • equipment operators
  • alternative power
  • underground coal

  • mine fatalities
  • mine environment
  • mine safety
  • lung diseases
  • national safety

  • rapid communication
  • lung disease
  • coal mines
  • risk factors
  • workplace risk


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